"We are marching to that area because that’s where all the violence has been,” said Darius Simpson, an EMU junior.

The march is a symbol of a community coming together and hopefully moving in the right direction to end the violence.

“At the end of the day we can sit and talk all we want, but we wanted to get together and take action,” Brandon Britt, an EMU junior and co-organizer of the event, said.

“Increase the Peace” is a movement put together by several student groups. After they marched, they rallied, and after they rallied, they held a candlelight vigil to not only remember Reed, but also Julia Niswender, an EMU student found dead in her off-campus apartment 10 months ago.

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